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It is a well known fact in europe that the weather pattern at that time moved the nuclear fallout all over middle europe, especially austria and southern germany were heavily affected by it.

Even until today you have to take care when collecting mushrooms in these regions and the other wildlife for sure has its own contamination.

So yes, you read it correctly - the chernobyl disaster has its effects thousands of kilometres away in dense populated areas.

http://www.lfl.bayern.de/iab/bodenschutz/14896/linkurl_0_2.pdf

Sorry, this pdf is only in german - but if you take a quick look, you should still determine the meanings of the diagrams inside. It gives an overview of the contamination after chernobyl for bavaria.

Yes, the German Grundgesetz guarantees free speech under section 1.5 which states:

Everyone has the right freely to express and to disseminate his opinion by speech, writing and pictures and freely to inform himself from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by radio and motion pictures are guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.

The only exception to this is materials considered "harmful" to youth, although from what I can tell that's largely limited to either things with large amounts of graphic violence, denying/"revising" the Holocaust or using Nazi symbols in inappropriate manners. In the case of Scientology, not only is the religion banned, but some government organizations like the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution have gone as far as creating pamphlets warning people about the dangers of Scientology (PDF in German)

Differently than for the Communist Manifesto the copyright for Mein Kampf hasn't expired yet. For the original german version the copyright is with the Free State of Bavaria, and they don't license it.

Yeah, I've been to Germany. I've got a ticket from
this guys for going more than 100km/h on one section of the autobahn.

Autobahn's aren't what they used to be... :-(

CSU, which has just won the European elections[...]

sorry, but that's wrong.

This quote from the article was meant to make clear that the CSU is an important party and I think 57,4% n Bavaria an 41,7% in Munich is something like winning an election. But next time I'll explain how Germany works, with all parties etc....

CSU did win the EU-elections in Bavaria (Stimmenanteile = votes share), but I wouldn't be surprised at that (I'll explain later). Their friend CDU won 40 out of the 99 seats for Germany in the EU parliament. CDU and CSU are in coalition, as well as SPD and the Greens (Grünen), SPD and the Greens managed to win the national German elections 2 years ago, but this loss in the EU-elections show the public's opinion of the way they are running the country so far.

The CSU has always been winning in Bavaria, it's a local party to the state. Some also joke it's the national party because "Bavaria is not Germany". This view is also the reason it doesn't get good results everywhere else, who'd want to have a "foreigner" as their chancellor? ;-)

Not enough to give URLs, I want to close by making a valiant attempt to get back on-topic. The Germans' argument (as I understand it) against the CO$ is that they don't play by the rules of a fair or law-abiding society. Having extremely bad experience with people who did not respect basic human rights, the Germans have basically decided (and I'm simplifying radically here) that basic civil rights extend only to those who respect the basic civil rights of others. Now, this may seem too restrictive to many Americans (I myself am not at all comfortable with it), but we see a similar thing going on here with the Church of the Swimming Elephant (cotse.com). They've been doing their best to support freedom of speech for anyone, and now, because of that, they're wide open to attacks from people who don't respect exactly that basic right. Thus, we return to the basic central issue in this story: How do we protect the 'net against net-vandalism of the sort which (allegedly) is costing the cotse.com folks all sorts of time and trouble?

Not enough to give URLs, I want to close by making a valiant attempt to get back on-topic. The Germans' argument (as I understand it) against the CO$ is that they don't play by the rules of a fair or law-abiding society. Having extremely bad experience with people who did not respect basic human rights, the Germans have basically decided (and I'm simplifying radically here) that basic civil rights extend only to those who respect the basic civil rights of others. Now, this may seem too restrictive to many Americans (I myself am not at all comfortable with it), but we see a similar thing going on here with the Church of the Swimming Elephant (cotse.com). They've been doing their best to support freedom of speech for anyone, and now, because of that, they're wide open to attacks from people who don't respect exactly that basic right. Thus, we return to the basic central issue in this story: How do we protect the 'net against net-vandalism of the sort which (allegedly) is costing the cotse.com folks all sorts of time and trouble?

Not enough to give URLs, I want to close by making a valiant attempt to get back on-topic. The Germans' argument (as I understand it) against the CO$ is that they don't play by the rules of a fair or law-abiding society. Having extremely bad experience with people who did not respect basic human rights, the Germans have basically decided (and I'm simplifying radically here) that basic civil rights extend only to those who respect the basic civil rights of others. Now, this may seem too restrictive to many Americans (I myself am not at all comfortable with it), but we see a similar thing going on here with the Church of the Swimming Elephant (cotse.com). They've been doing their best to support freedom of speech for anyone, and now, because of that, they're wide open to attacks from people who don't respect exactly that basic right. Thus, we return to the basic central issue in this story: How do we protect the 'net against net-vandalism of the sort which (allegedly) is costing the cotse.com folks all sorts of time and trouble?

Not enough to give URLs, I want to close by making a valiant attempt to get back on-topic. The Germans' argument (as I understand it) against the CO$ is that they don't play by the rules of a fair or law-abiding society. Having extremely bad experience with people who did not respect basic human rights, the Germans have basically decided (and I'm simplifying radically here) that basic civil rights extend only to those who respect the basic civil rights of others. Now, this may seem too restrictive to many Americans (I myself am not at all comfortable with it), but we see a similar thing going on here with the Church of the Swimming Elephant (cotse.com). They've been doing their best to support freedom of speech for anyone, and now, because of that, they're wide open to attacks from people who don't respect exactly that basic right. Thus, we return to the basic central issue in this story: How do we protect the 'net against net-vandalism of the sort which (allegedly) is costing the cotse.com folks all sorts of time and trouble?